Publications by authors named "J H Hortal"
Unlabelled: Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (STBI) often experience an abnormal hemostasis that contributes to mortality and unfavorable neurological outcomes.
Objectives: We aimed to analyze epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory factors associated with mortality in patients with STBI during the first 48 h after in-hospital admission.
Methods: We performed an observational retrospective study of STBI patients with associated extracranial trauma [defined as Injury Severity Score (ISS) ≥ 16 with an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) head and neck ≥ 3 and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 8] admitted to a Level II trauma center over seven years (2015-2021).
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- Biological soil covers (BSCs) are essential for ecosystem health, improving soil stability, nutrient cycling, and hydrology, while supporting plant development.
- The eBryoSoil app enabled citizen scientists to map BSC communities in the Iberian Peninsula between November 2019 and January 2021, gathering key data despite challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The findings underline the need for conservation efforts focused on diverse habitats to protect lichen and bryophyte communities, and highlight the potential of citizen science in studying vulnerable ecosystems and organisms.
Adaptive colonization is a process wherein a colonizing population exhibits an adaptive change in response to a novel environment, which may be critical to its establishment. To date, theoretical models of adaptive colonization have been based on single-species introductions. However, given their pervasiveness, symbionts will frequently be co-introduced with their hosts to novel areas.
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- Incomplete species inventories in Antarctica hinder ecological research and conservation efforts, with notable gaps in understanding species interactions, population dynamics, and overall biodiversity.
- A new living database called terrANTALife has been developed, compiling and revising inventories of eukaryotic species in Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, including significant contributions from various groups of microorganisms.
- The comprehensive checklists now include 470 animal species, 306 plant species, 997 fungal species, and 434 protists, marking a significant step toward understanding and preserving Antarctic biodiversity.
Background: We compiled a database of firefly species records from the Atlantic Forest hotspot in Brazil and made it available at GBIF. Data were gathered from literature and from several key entomological collections, including: Coleção entomológica Prof. José Alfredo Pinheiro Dutra (DZRJ/UFRJ) and Coleção do Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CLEI/UFRJ); Coleção Entomológica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (CEIOC); Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP); Coleção Entomológica Pe.
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